Just coming.

In the end the only way to not get gouge in australia is to buy on the grey market from another country. Here instead of plowing through copyright laws by absolutely flouting them, you can bypass the arbitrary high price by going into the grey zone and buying from overseas resellers engage in arbitrage.

These companies have to get realistic, the government is already taking a dim view on this so it is unlikely, and the fact you have to go grey market often means it might be easier just to pirate the whole damn thing.

This is a massive competitiveness issue. Especially if it cost 2 times a seat to employ in world terms somebody in Australia than it does in the US just on software.

Governments don't like arbitrary things like that, especially if they can outlaw them....

He was an artist on a fellowship in new york. The statement of a fellowship tends to suggest he was paid by some organisation, which means he probably came in on a j1 or j2 visa status. This is a short term working visa for visiting artist, academics and performers. Ie if you are on a sabbatical to a us university from europe, or you are a touring musician or an artist working as an artist in the states you get one of these types of visa fairly easily.

The part of the company which founded silcon valley and made Hewlett Packard was spun out as Agilent. They make high end test equipment and instrumentation for a wide range of markets (electronics testing to biotech).

HP was the well known brand name that was kept to sell to the wider consummer market in PCs and IT equipment. There was a time when HP could make computers and it fitted with the high end analytical equipment philosophy in terms of quality. But the realities of the PCs in the late 90's (and following through to now) meant that they sacrificed the brand name to the IT PC consumer market, while putting the quality, innovative and true silcon valley element into Agilent.

This plane is meant to fly a circular path around an area indefinately.

Maybe the differential drag of the wings will make it fly a circular path naturally, and produce less drag overall than constantly moving the rudder or Ailerons to make a straight flying plane turn. Less drag means less energy required to keep it flying.

I am not a german lawyer (IANAGL). But essentially the law is saying you can't make new publications refering to the names of the released prisoners after they are released. But it was OK to publish this when they were in jail or being prosecuted.

Therefore every publication published before they were released were legally able to publish their names and assuming that there is no requirement to destroy said publication, which would be very Orwellian, then all the information can stay out there in libraries etc.

Obviously everything outside of germany doesn't have to comply, but the german wikipedia can just show a static locked version of the offending page from before the two murderers were released, as it is then not a new publication.

This is military research. Most if not all posts have to be filled by US citizens, after extensive security checks.

The military research and engineering area were always going to be the first to suffer from a decrease in the number of US citizens going into scientific and engineering fields. It is one area where importing overseas trained scientists and engineers can't fill the gap.